Rahul Patel

Rahul Patel is responsible for Healthcare and Life Sciences business for Persistent Systems. As a General Manager, Rahul leads cross-functional teams across sales, marketing, R&D, professional services and business development focusing on Healthcare and Life Sciences area. Rahul also manages several strategic relationships including multiple collaborations with Partners Healthcare.

Prior to joining Persistent Patel has held leadership positions at large software companies and founded and built startups as well. His journey spans from Genwi – a mobile startup, Oracle Corp, BEA Systems, Versata – a business rules startup, Sybase and Sun Microsystems. Through this career he has built and delivered multiple successful product businesses leading all the functions from initial inception to R&D to Sales and Marketing to eventual customer value creation post deployments.

Patel received a masterʼs degree in computer science and database management from The University of Florida; and a bachelorʼs degree in electronics and communications from Gujarat University, India.